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<div><span style="font-size:larger;">Skavi Ballinas is a first-generation college student studying Mechanical</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">Engineering at the City College of New York. Being born in a place like New York, she</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">has grown to appreciate different cultures and backgrounds. It has also has inspired her</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">to believe the sky is the limit.</span></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">She is part of the Grove School of Engineering. Mostly associated with the</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and Society of Woman Engineers. Their</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">goal is to introduce higher education to minorities and women particularly in the STEM</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">fields. Being the first one in her family to go to college she related to the members in the</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">associations and assisted lower-class students into paths that would benefit their</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">career.</span></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">She was part of Invention Corps, an association that introduced her to the</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">concept of design thinking. Through her experience in Invention Corps she was</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">introduced to the University Innovation Fellowship. Her goal is to be able to incorporate</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">both methodologies into her life in order to inspire the newer generation with the never-</span></div><div><span style="font-size:larger;">ending innovations created with technology and brain power.</span></div>